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Finsbury Park Mosque in London has been sent threatening letters promising “rivers of blood,” less than two weeks after a terror attack happened on its doorstep.

Makram Ali, 51, was killed and nine other people injured when a van ploughed into worshippers who had just attended The Muslim Welfare House near the mosque on June 19.

Media reports say the letters warn that the attack is “only the beginning” and that another could take place in August.

Mohammed Kozbar, chairman of the Finsbury Park mosque, said the severity of the threats in the letters have left him concerned that another attack could take place soon.

One anonymous letter, which has since been reported to the police, read: “The attack using the van was only the beginning. The fun will continue this August. There will be rivers of blood flowing down the streets — I will make sure of this. None of you vermin will survive. I mean who would survive being gassed, or beheaded, or blown up.”

Spike in number of race hate crimes being committed on Greater Manchester's trains

The region is the worst place in the north west for offences

29 JUN 2017

Transport police have launched a crackdown on race hate crime after 43 shocking incidents on Greater Manchester’s trains in just six months.

The figures, released by British Transport Police (BTP), show that the region is the worst place in the north west for offences.

There have been 43 race hate crimes committed since the beginning of the year.

There were 19 recorded incidents in Liverpool, seven in Preston and six in Crewe.

In one example a woman reported she was racially abused while travelling on a train from Lancaster to Manchester Piccadilly, on Saturday, June 24.

BTP chiefs launched an investigation and reviewed CCTV footage.

A 47-year-old man has since been arrested in connection with the incident.

BTP officials are currently visiting stations across the region in a bid to stamp out race hate crime as part of the #WeStandTogether campaign.

BTP officers will also be speaking to commuters about how they tackle hate crime and advice on what to do if you are a victim or witness.

Inspector Granville Sellers said: “Everyone has the right to travel safely and not to be targeted, simply because of who they are or because of who you or your friends and family are, or who people think they are.

“Any victimisation or intolerance that is driven by hatred will have a significant and often much greater emotional and psychological impact on those involved, but offences that are motivated by hate and prejudice also have the wider potential to divide communities.

“Particularly after the recent horrific events in Manchester and London, now more than ever, we need to stand together to address hatred and extremism.

“There is never any excuse and we take our responsibility to investigate this type of crime, and provide full support to victims of hate crime extremely seriously.

“If you are a victim of hate crime, or if you witness an incident that makes you feel uncomfortable, please do not suffer in silence – report it to us and we will do everything we can to help.”

Anyone who wants to report a crime can call British Transport Police on 0800 405040 or text to 61016. In an emergency, call 999.

When he carried out the assault he put what appears to be a ski mask on and wore a motorbike helmet to cover his face.

He also covered his mouth, chin and neck with black clothing, but police tracked him down using CCTV footage.

He pleaded guilty to religiously or racially aggravated assault and has been jailed for 38 weeks over the attack.

The victim, who had been walking with her mother, was not injured but was left very distressed as a result of the incident on June 8 in Hertford Road, Enfield.

He admitted the attack at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, Islington, last Thursday and was sentenced yesterday.

He was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge and will complete a 12-month supervision order when he is released on licence.

DC James Payne from Enfield Community Safety Unit (CSU) said: ‘This was a truly shocking incident.

‘The victim was out with her mother and getting on with her day when Chivers abused her and then set upon her with something he knew would both upset and offend her.

‘We know other people were present during this attack, including an associate of Chivers’ who filmed the incident. Enquiries are ongoing to trace these people and if you have any information that may assist in identifying them please contact the Community Safety Unit at Enfield via 101.

‘The Community Safety Unit here in Enfield would encourage all victims of hate crime to contact police so that the culprits can be identified and brought to justice.’

The Metropolitan Police said that it recognises that this kind of attack goes under-reported by victims.

The force added in a statement: ‘We would appeal to anyone who witnesses or suffers any hate of any type to immediately report it so that action can quickly be taken and catch those responsible.

‘Hate crime can be reported through 999 in an emergency, by dialling 101 in a non-emergency, directly at a police station, through the MOPAC Hate Crime app or through community reporting methods such as Tell MAMA, Galop, or the Community Security Trust.’

Ilford Shooting: Shocked Muslims Help Bloodied Man Who Came into Mosque After Being Shot and Stabbed

Some worshippers thought there had been another terror attack

By Mark Chandler - 6/21/2017
Shocked Muslims leaving prayers rushed to help when a bleeding man who had been shot and stabbed ran into a mosque saying he had been attacked.
The victim, described as a clean-shaven Sikh man, staggered into the Ilford Community Centre on Eton Road just before 2pm on Monday, bleeding from his shoulder.

Those at the centre called for an ambulance and police to help the wounded man.

Bashir Chaudhry, chairman of the mosque, said some people feared another terror attack had taekn place after people were mowed down early on Monday morning outside a mosque in Finsbury Park.

But he said worshippers reacted calmly to the situation.

He told the Standard: "Someone walked into the centre and he was bleeding very badly.

"When I spoke to him he said 'I've been attacked'.

"I immediately called the police and ambulance. It's what anyone else would have done."

Mr Chaudhry said the man then left the centre and he followed him out to a nearby house and waited for emergency services to arrive.

"I tried to help him," he said. "At that time people were leaving the mosque and they saw him and he was very badly hurt.

"He was bleeding from the back of his neck and his shoulder and from his face."

"Some people misunderstood what had happened," he said. "They thought somebody had attacked the worshippers, that the mosque had been attacked, which is not right."

"With what's been going on in Finsbury Park and other places, people are concerned really."

A spokesman for the Met said: "Police in Redbridge are dealing after a man was shot and stabbed.

"Officers were called at 2.02pm on Monday, 19 June, to Eton Road, Ilford, to reports a man armed with a knife. Attending officers found a man in a residential address suffering from stab and gunshot wounds. He was taken to an east London hospital where his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening."

Police said there had been no arrests so far and the incident is not being treated as terror-related.

Fakenham Man Threatened To Kill Muslims On Day Of Manchester Terror Attack

by Taz Ali - 29 June 2017

A 60-year-old man called police and threatened to kill Muslims on the day of the Manchester terror attack, a court heard.

John Taylor of Red Lion Court, Fakenham, pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and communicating a threatening message when he appeared before King's Lynn magistrates.

Jane Foster, prosecuting, said on May 22 this year, at 5.23pm, Taylor called the police and threatened to shoot Muslims and Turks.

Mrs Foster added the police call handler said he sounded intoxicated and the language used "demonstrated hostility to Turkish people and Muslims".

The court heard police officers visited Taylor's address the same day but he had shut the door and refused to speak to them.

The following day, on May 23, police officers went to see Taylor again at his home at 5.40pm and found him intoxicated.

Mrs Foster said Taylor, who is unemployed, told police officers he was English and that they needed to speak to "them Muslims".

She added Taylor said to police they did not know what happened in Manchester and that he would smash their shop windows and stab them. He said if the police did not arrest him now they would be back after he "knifes one of them Muslims", Mrs Foster added.

In a police interview, Taylor said he got into an argument outside a kebab shop after drinking in the pub. He said he had been in a strop and said nasty things when he was drunk.

He said he had no intention to carry out the threats and he was not a racist because he went to Turkey on holiday, the court heard.

Alistair Taunton, mitigating, said Taylor was "embarrassed, ashamed and disappointed with himself".

He said Taylor was outside the pub on May 22 when somebody made a comment to turkish people nearby and they thought it was made by Taylor. After an argument ensued, Taylor went home and took the wrong medication, which he takes for depression and anxiety, Mr Taunton added.

Chairman of the bench Sophie Archer told Taylor the threats he made were serious and taken seriously by the police.
He was given a conditional discharge for three years and fined £300. He was also ordered to pay £85 court costs and £30 victim surcharge.http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/fa...tack-1-5084465

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This terrorist threatens to murder Muslims and the police visit him as if they were selling something to him. Then the typical white kuffar excuses come out of mental illness, drunkenness, etc.

Finsbury Park mosque has been sent threatening letters promising 'rivers of blood', less than two weeks after it was targeted in a terror attack.

Makram Ali, 51, was killed and nine other people injured when a van ploughed into worshippers who had just attended Ramadan prayers at the Finsbury Park Mosque on June 19.

And letters sent to the mosque and shown to Vice News warn that the attack is 'only the beginning' and that another could take place in August.

Mohammed Kozbar, chairman of the Finsbury Park mosque, said the severity of the threats in the letters have left him concerned that another attack could take place soon.

One anonymous letter, which has since been reported to the police, read: 'The attack using the van was only the beginning.
'The fun will continue this August. There will be rivers of blood flowing down the streets - I will make sure of this. None of you vermin will survive. I mean who would survive being gassed, or beheaded, or blown up.'
Another message demanded the mosque pay £18,445.17 to repair any damage the van suffered when it mowed down victims.

The postcard read: 'Mr Osborne was not insured unfortunately and in these times of austerity we all need as much cash as possible.'

"When you receive something like that it is not a threat to an individual, it's a threat for the whole community," Kozbar told VICE News, adding that not enough was being done by the U.K. government to protect Muslims from hate crimes.

Mr Kozbar, who has been chairman of the London mosque for six years, says he has seen hate crimes against Muslims increase year over year.

He added that several local worshipers have reported being verbally and physically attacked.

'We haven't seen this issue of Islamophobia and Muslim hate crimes taken seriously by the government in the last few years... we hope that after this attack things will change,' he said.

But he added that the mosque had also been 'overwhelmed' by letters of support sent from all over the country.

Police provide 24/7 protection to Islamophobes in the country at taxpayers’ expense; these Muslims need to get the police to be stationed at every Mosque. These Muslims also need to hire/create their own security team with guns to shoot on site these terrorists.

UK: Suspect in Anti-Muslim Acid Attack 'Hate Crime' at Large

7/3/2017

A birthday acid attack on an aspiring model and her cousin is now being treated as a hate crime by police.

Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar had a corrosive substance thrown through their car window in Beckton, east London, on 21 June.

Police said "new information" had come to light about the "horrendous act of violence" which meant they were now treating it as a hate crime.

A man [christianist terrorist] is being hunted for by police over the attack.

The Met have urged John Tomlin, 24, to hand himself in for questioning and warned members of the public not to approach him.

Acting Det Supt Neil Matthews said the investigation "continues to move at great pace and my team continues to act on a number of leads to find Tomlin".

Ms Khan had been celebrating her 21st birthday with Mr Muhktar in east London.

They had stopped in their car at traffic lights when a man approached and threw the toxic substance at them.

He was such a macho tough guy to attack unsuspecting innocent Muslims but now the coward is in hiding, as usual of such cowards. Spread news of him so someone can report him. White Britons also need to step up and report their terrorist.

Thug hurls acid over a student and her cousin as she celebrated her 21st birthday, leaving him in a coma

By Alice Evans - 25 June 2017

A thug who hurled acid at a student and her cousin as they celebrated her 21st birthday has left the pair with life-changing injuries.

Manchester Met university student Resham Khan, and her cousin Jameel Muhktar, were driving through Beckton, east London, when they were stopped by a red traffic light.
They had the windows down and were playing music, feeling celebratory after not having seen each other since Miss Khan returned from an exchange year in Cyprus.

As they waited for the lights to change a man threw a corrosive substance through the open window and into Miss Khan's face - before going round to the driver's side and throwing more acid at Mr Muhktar.

Miss Khan, a Business Management student, said she watched her clothes burn away as she struggled with the 'excruciating' pain.

She said she and her cousin, 37, tried to drive away from their attacker but crashed the car when the 'pain took over'. They were forced to strip naked on the A13 as they begged passersby for water to help ease the agony.

'On my actual birthday, my cousin and I went for a drive in the morning, blasting music and chilling like cousins do, hyping it as I was 21. Long story short, whilst at the lights, a man threw acid through my window and then went round to his and threw more.

'The pain was excruciating. I was struggling to close the window. My cousin struggled to get us away. I saw my clothes burn away in front of me. He put his foot down as we were coming onto a dual carriageway but the pain took over and we crashed.

'We stripped off in the middle of the road, running around screaming and begging for water. We did this for 45 minutes. Someone drove my naked cousin and me to the local hospital, and we were seen to. We have since been transferred to a specialist unit.'

The student explained that she has had a skin graft but does not yet know what her face will look like. She also has burns across her body and her sight has been damaged.

'The occupants, a man aged 37 and a woman aged 21, were assisted by members of the public and had been taken to an east London hospital prior to the arrival of police and the London Ambulance Service. Both victims have suffered burn injuries described as life-changing.

'It is believed the victims were inside a parked car when a man approached and threw a corrosive substance through the open window. The car made off pursued by the suspect on foot before it collided with a fence. The suspect made off.

'Officers from Newham and the Met's Territorial Support Group executed a warrant at an address in E16 on the afternoon of 21 June in connection with the incident. There were no arrests; enquiries continue.'

Two Acid Attacks are Carried Out in Britain EVERY DAY

Children use deadly liquids in playground disputes

By Richard Spillett - 1 May 2017

The number of acid attacks taking place in Britain is soaring, with school children as young as 13 using corrosive substances as weapons.

Crime statistics show that there was more than 450 acid attacks in London alone last year, with the number of attacks in the capital more than doubling since 2014.

But experts say the real figure is much higher, with the true scale of the problem hidden because people are afraid to come forward.

Jaf Shah, of the Acid Survivors' Trust International, told The Sun: 'Per head of population, the UK has more male-on-male acid attacks than an other country in the world. The numbers may be even higher than we think.'

It comes after Assistant chief constable Rachel Kearton, the National Police Chiefs Council spokesperson on corrosive attacks, said many victims are staying silent.

She said: 'I do fear that this is a hidden crime and that some of the victims are in fear of reprisal and don't come forward.'

It is believed criminal gang members are carrying acid in drinks bottles because they are less likely to get caught than if they carry a knife or gun.

Schoolchildren as young as 13 have also told how 'squirting' rivals with acid is easier than trying to stab or fight them.

The figures will add to calls to ban the sale of corrosive substances to youngsters.

Shops currently have to report children or teenagers acting suspiciously when they buy acid or strong household cleaners, but there is no age restriction on its sale.

Model Katie Piper is one of the most high-profile victims of acid attacks. But figures show the number of such attacks has soared since her tragic incident in 2008

The issue first came to widespread public attention when model Katie Piper was attacked with sulphuric acid by her ex-boyfriend Daniel Lynch in 2008.

Ms Piper has since led campaigns to raise awareness of the problem, founding her own charity to help people living with burns and scars and releasing an autobiography about her life entitled Beautiful.

Another high-profile victim of the sickening weapon was Naomi Oni, who suffered burns to her face and chest in an attack near her east London home in December 2012.

Naomi Oni spoke out about the lack of support for victims after she was attacked in 2012

She later hit out at authorities over the lack of support and the 'incompetant' way in which her complaint was handled'.

Victim Adele Bellis, who lost an ear and suffered permanent scarring in the sulphuric acid attack in Suffolk in 2014, also bravely spoke publicly about rebuilding her life after the attack.

The issue has received renewed attention in recent weeks after clubbers were doused with a corrosive substance at Mangle nightclub in Dalston, London, on April 17, leaving two people blind in one eye and 18 others with multiple burns.

Adele Bellis spoke of her road to recovery after she lost an ear in an attack in Suffolk in 2014

Arthur Collins, the former boyfriend of TOWIE star Fern McCann, has since appeared in court, alongside with another man, Andre Phoenix.

Islamophobes in the west try to present a picture that such attacks only happen in Muslim countries and by Muslim women, yet in their own countries even children are throwing acid on people over childish disputes and on a daily basis.

The article states that in the UK male are biggest victims yet they fail to show a single picture of a male victim, and instead chose to post only female victims. This is how the misandrist and gynocentrist media reports.

Man with knife jailed after telling police he wanted to 'kill Asian b******* for blowing us up' in revenge for Arena attack

Christopher Gordon has been jailed for 22 months after telling police he was going to 'find an Asian person' and kill them

7.7.2017

An armed and masked man arrested in a park moments after telling police he wanted to ‘kill Asians’ in revenge for the Manchester Arena bombing has been caged.

Christopher Gordon was wielding a kitchen knife and wearing a balaclava when an officer arrested him in Birchfields Park, between Longsight and Rusholme.

The area of south Manchester was described in court as being ‘heavily populated by the Asian community.’

Gordon, 33, has now been jailed for 22 months by a judge who said the ‘tragic and horrendous’ attack was no justification for his behaviour.

Prosecutor Simon Barrett told Manchester Crown Court that racially-motivated hate crimes increased four-fold in the month after the May 22 bombing at the Arena , which claimed the lives of 22 people and left around 250 others injured.

The court heard a female officer had to threaten to deploy her Taser on Gordon after catching up with him at dawn in Birchfields Park in the early hours of June 7.

A jogger had told her ‘there’s a man down there with a knife wearing a balaclava’.

The court was told Gordon dropped the knife when warned, but as he was arrested, said: “I’m f****** sick of these b******* bombing our country, they need to be sorted out.”

He then referred to ‘killing Asian b*******’, Mr Barrett said.

Minutes earlier Gordon had phoned 999 and told the operator that if police did not come and get him he would ‘kill somebody’.

He told them he was in Birchfields Park, that he had a black mask on and a knife, and said he was ‘going to kill the b******* who f****** blew us up’.

“I’m coming for them Asian b*******. I’m not promising that I’m not going to walk down the park and find an Asian person,” he said.

Gordon, who works as a cleaner, later admitted making threats to kill - a racially-aggravated public order offence - and possessing a bladed article.

Prosecutor Simon Barrett told the sentencing hearing Gordon had been drinking on the day of the incident and had earlier made drunken calls to police in which he ‘reported a robbery and indicated he had not paid a fine’.

Interviewed following his arrest, Gordon ‘accepted his wrongdoing’, but denied being racist, said he had ‘friends of different colours’, and that he did not intend to kill anybody.

Gordon’s defence barrister, Gwen Henshaw, said his offending came about because crises in his own life and the crisis in the city coincided, leaving him ‘confused, muddled and grief-stricken’.

“He finds what happened abhorrent, he his horrified by his own actions, he told me he sat in his cell with his head in his hands thinking ‘what have I done, what have I said?’”, Miss Henshaw told the court.

She added: “At the time he had suffered bereavement, he was out of work for the first time in his adult life, he started to abuse alcohol.

“He spent some time in St Ann’s Square looking at the flowers and feeling - as every right-thinking member of society was and still is - shocked and grief-stricken by what happened at Manchester Arena.

“He doesn’t quite know how he found himself in the park. He would wish me to tell the court he meant no harm, does not hold racist attitudes and was dealing badly with crises within his own life and crises in society.”

Sentencing, Recorder Mukhtar Hussain QC said: “Young people and children lost their lives, many, many were injured and the city will suffer for a very long time - one can understand the feelings that would generate in Mancunians.

“But that does not in any way justify targeting a vulnerable group. The message must go out that the courts will protect ordinary law-abiding citizens of this country.”

Police officers who failed to help murdered refugee despite years of pleas displayed 'hallmarks of racism'

Bijan Ebrahimi called police 85 times asking for help but an officer dismissed him as a 'pest' within an hour of his brutal killing

4 July 2017

Police officers who failed to come to the assistance of a disabled refugee who was beaten to death and set on fire by his neighbour showed “hallmarks of racial bias”, the police watchdog has said in a damning ruling that revealed a catalogue of failings.

Bijan Ebrahimi, 44, was murdered by Lee James in Bristol in July 2013 after seven years of abuse. James wrongly believed his neighbour, an Iranian national, was a paedophile.

In an excoriating report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) criticised the “poor responses” of the police and suggested the officers involved had displayed signs of racism.

Between 2007 and his murder, Mr Ebrahimi made 85 calls to Avon and Somerset Police to report a range of crimes, including racial abuse, criminal damage and threats to kill him.

He had his home and car set on fire and had the word “pervert” daubed on his front door.

On 40 separate occasions, police officers failed to record the crimes.

Jan Williams, an IPCC commissioner, said Mr Ebrahimi had been failed “on a number of levels, over a number of years”.

“This failure was at its worst at the very time that his need was greatest," she said.

“There could, and should, have been a very different response.

“Instead, his complaints about abusive neighbours were disbelieved and he was considered to be a liar, a nuisance and an attention seeker.

“Neighbours’ counter allegations were taken at face value and accepted, despite evidence to the contrary, and Bijan Ebrahimi found himself regarded as the perpetrator of the abuse, rather than as the victim.”

Ms Williams said the IPCC had found evidence that officers treated Mr Ebrahimi “consistently differently from his neighbours, to his detriment and without reasonable explanation”.

"Some of the evidence has the hallmarks of what could be construed as racial bias, conscious or unconscious,” she added.

A police officer, Kevin Duffy, and a PCSO, Andrew Passmore, were last year found guilty of misconduct and jailed for 10 months and four months respectively. They were sacked from their jobs, along with two other officers.

There was also a “consistent systematic failure” by call handlers, who breached standards on recording crimes, identifying hate offences and repeat victims.

It was likely “that the perpetrators of the offences against Mr Ebrahimi, came to believe that they could act with impunity towards Mr Ebrahimi”, the IPCC report stated.

“Whatever he said was likely to be disbelieved, particularly if the perpetrators and/or their associates made counter allegations. "

In another recording, police officer Helen Harris is heard calling Mr Ebrahimi “a pain in the arse” and telling him his behaviour was the cause of his problems. “Shut up…I’m fed up talking to you”, she told him. “You’re boring me.”

One incident against Mr Ebrahimi was recorded with a description reading: “Informant Is foreign and very difficult to understand.”

He made one final call to police in the hour before he was murdered, begging them for help.

In response, police officer Leanne Winter, who, like Ms Harris, was one of those dismissed, said: “I’m absolutely not interested in speaking to him ever thanks... I don’t think anybody is, to be honest. He’s a pest."

James was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of Mr Ebrahimi’s murder at Bristol Crown Court in 2014. He had repeatedly threatened the Iranian man and head-butted him days before beating him to death and setting his body on fire.

James claimed that, after the head-butting incident, one police officer told him: “Off the record, I would have done the same thing.”

The IPCC said Avon and Somerset Constabulary was institutionally responsible for Mr Embrahimi’s death.

Lead IPCC investigator John Simick said: “Unfortunately, only his murder uncovered the fact that he was wrongly and unjustifiably being treated by the police as a liar when the evidence showed that he was the victim.

Footage – available above – shows the smashed windows and scratched metal of the damaged vehicle after the alleged rampage.

The terrified teen says he left the car and ran for home, with the thugs in tow, yelling racist abuse at him.
His mother was then injured after the gang threw bricks at the window of their family.
"I was scared for my life as they surrounded my car and began smashing it up with axes, golf clubs, and machetes," Yaha told the Birmingham Mail.
"They were shouting racist abuse and trying to drag me out. I ran towards my house and they followed me and began throwing bricks and stones at the property.
"Some of the shattered glass injured my mother and the whole family was terrified.

"I'd saved up for months to buy the car, a Vauxhall Corsa, and they just wrote it off."

The alleged attack followed tensions between the mosque and a group of travellers who were forced to leave it six weeks ago.

West Midlands Police confirmed they attended the scene after gunshots and disorder were reported.

"There was also damage to a car and a caravan," said a West Midlands Police spokesman.

"It was quickly established that no shots had been fired and officers spoke to all parties involved to diffuse the situation. No arrests were made."

He added: "Several travellers left the area during the early hours with the remainder expected to leave later today.

"Officers are increasing patrols in the area and are liaising with the local community, including Billesley Mosque, to make sure they are kept fully updated."

A Mosque spokesman said: "The travellers were illegally camped here last month and some of them were very rude towards us, intimidating and threatening some of our congregation.

"We don't know why we were attacked but it smacks of racism because of the language they used and the fact we had done nothing to provoke them."

An Islamic centre in Manchester has suffered significant damage following a suspected arson attack overnight.

Manchester Fire Brigade were called at around 11.40pm yesterday evening and police this morning confirmed they are treating it as suspicious.

A spokesman for the centre told the Manchester Evening News that they had received a call to say the building ‘was being attacked’.

Emergency services confirmed that the fire at the Manchester Nasfat Islamic Centre on Droylsedon Road was being investigated.

Flames appeared to come out of the roof and lit up the sky and surrounding buildings.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said: ‘We were called at 11.43pm to Droylsden Road in Newton Heath to reports of a fire. We sent five pumps to the scene and an investigation is now underway.’

The mosque has previously been targeted with two pigs’ heads thrown into the building while people were praying and a minibus was destroyed in an arson attack in 2014.

Greater Manchester Police said the fire is being treated as suspicious and a joint investigation has been launched.

This afternoon the force confirmed that the offender forced open a window before pouring an accelerant inside.

Detective Chief Inspector Paul Walker of GMP’s City of Manchester Borough, said: ‘People are understandably shocked that someone has attacked a place of worship.

‘We are investigating this as a hate crime which has damaged a place of worship used by members of the Nigerian community.

‘Hate crime is often under reported for a number of reasons, but people should have the confidence in coming forward, as no one should be the subject of hate and intolerance.’

Police said they were called to the shop, in Cricklewood, on 23 May by staff who said a man had “threatened to blow the bookshop up and ‘kill the Muslims’.”

The suspect left the shop after making the threats but witnesses described him wearing a high-visibility jacket and trousers.

Moffatt, of Ivy Road, Cricklewood, was identified as the suspect after he made an unrelated call to the police later the same day alleging that he had been threatened by someone else.

“Officers then noticed that Moffatt was wearing the same attire as the suspect from the Cricklewood Broadway incident earlier that day,” a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said.

Enquiries and a review of CCTV footage in the area placed Moffatt at the bookshop and he was arrested at 11.30pm.

When officers confronted him over the allegations, he replied: “I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m Catholic.”

Moffatt was sentenced to a community order requiring him to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and to pay £620 in costs and a victim surcharge of £85 at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on 28 July.

Detective Inspector Madeline Ryder said: “Hate crime is unacceptable and Brent’s Community Safety Unit is committed to tackling hate crime in all its forms, supporting victims and their families and bringing perpetrators like Moffatt to justice.”

A spokesperson for Scotland Yard said it was working to combat the “hidden nature” of hate crime, which remains largely unreported, and vowed to fully investigate all allegations while supporting victims and their families.

The force is appealing for anyone suffering or witnessing any form of any hate crime to report it immediately by calling 999 or 101, visiting a police station, using the MOPAC Hate Crime app or through groups like Tell MAMA for Islamophobic incidents and the Community Security Trust (CST) for anti-Semitic incidents.

When you say, “Islam is dangerous,” what you’re saying is Muslims are an object to be securitized. You’re saying Muslims are a threat to national security, and, in turn, policing and counterterrorism policies must be mitigate against this threat by deploying tactics and measures that monitor and suppress Muslims.

This, more or less, is the logic that underpins much of the West’s hyper-legislative response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. More worryingly, recent public surveys show a hardening of attitudes towards Muslims in Western countries, and this all but promises the continuation and expansion of draconian counterterrorism policies that not only unfairly discriminate against Muslim communities, but also, ultimately, are self-defeating in the effort to both defeat “Islamic” terrorism and defend democratic values.

Billed as “one of the most comprehensive studies of English attitudes towards contemporary issues,” a report, conducted by Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation, found that 52% of Brits believe Islam “poses a threat to the West,” alongside another 25% who believe Islam is a “dangerous religion that incites violence.”

Hardening attitudes towards Islam, no doubt a reflection of both negative portrayals of Muslims in the media, and the fear in which “Islamic” terrorism invokes, create the political space for anti-Muslim opportunists to mobilize a political base.

A space that was made even wider the very day after the Bertelsmann Foundation report was published when the European Union’s counterterrorism coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove, announced without evidence that Britain was home to up to 35,000 “fanatical Islamists,” and also warned of more terrorist attacks if “greater measures” weren’t put in place to prevent them.

When you combine the public’s growing anti-Muslim hysteria with unsubstantiated, off-the-cuff claims disseminated into the media by political elites, you create the conditions in which the Islamic faith becomes all but illegal in the eyes of the police and counterterrorism agencies, which is pretty much where we are today.

Muslims living in the West are already living in the dystopian future portrayed in Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 film The Minority Report, which foretells of a future world in which law enforcement can prosecute and incapacitate future killers before they actually commit a crime. In other words, future criminals are apprehended based on their thoughts, rather than their behavior. It is from this film and the novel that inspired it that the word “pre-crime” is borrowed to describe the interdiction of threats before they materialize into actual criminal acts.

Since 9/11, Western governments have chosen to ignore the actual root causes of violent “Islamic” extremism — such as blowback from Western foreign policy, structural inequalities, and socioeconomic marginalization — and instead fixate on ambiguous notions such as “radicalization,” which not only inculcate Western governments from criticism, but shift the blame to Islam and Muslim communities.

In actual counterterrorism policy, it looks like this: pre-crime measures are put in place to apprehend Muslims before they commit an actual crime by criminalizing non-criminal actions and thoughts that the government imagines are stepping stones on the way to an act of political violence.

This is the logic that underpins both Prevent in the United Kingdom, and Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) programs in the United States. This pre-crime logic effectively deems all Muslims as potential terrorists in waiting, and worse, it essentially determines pious practice of the Islamic faith to be a stepping-stone to violent extremism, despite the fact Britain’s top spy agency, Mi5, says the evidence suggests “a well-established religious identity actually protects against radicalization,” and despite the fact more than 140 of the world’s leading academics determined Prevent to be based on junk science.

“Criminalization, like counterterrorism, is essentially a political process that happens outside the courts,” observes Jude McCulloch, a professor in criminology at Australia’s Monash University. “Counterterrorism and the pre-crime framework it animates formalizes the self-fulfilling prophesy of selective law enforcement by embedding preemption into formal law, increasing police powers and increasing the intensity and duration of coercion linked to police discretion and action.”

McCulloch also notes that where only the courts have the legal capacity to determine who is a criminal, it is politics and politicians who determine who is and who isn’t a terrorist. “The label ‘terrorism’ precedes, extends beyond and exists independently of reasonable suspicion and evidence-based criminal justice processes,” notes McCulloch.
It’s in this light that counter-terrorism policies underpinned by a “pre-crime” logic, such as Prevent, have produced interventions that make a mockery of the absurd. British Asian kids have been referred for displaying the Palestinian flag on their schoolbags; Muslim university professors who are studying terrorism have been detained for purchasing a book on, well, terrorism. As have young Muslim adults who attend their local mosque more often than usual.
In fact, only around 20% of those referred to the authorities under the Prevent program were assessed at risk of being vulnerable to violent extremist groups.

A Justice Initiative report, entitled “Eroding Trust,” concluded, “Being wrongly targeted under Prevent has led some Muslims to question their place in British society.”

Cerie Bullivant, a human rights activist with CAGE UK, told me that these “pre-crime” counterterrorism laws are so draconian and repressive against Muslim communities that we may very well see instances of terrorists not only citing British foreign policy as their primary grievance, but also domestic policies like Prevent.

Against this backdrop one can see how increasingly dangerous the current political climate is becoming for British Muslims. Hope Not Hate, an advocacy group that counters racism, argues that hardening British attitudes towards Muslims and Islam has created the space for extreme anti-Muslim political opportunists, like Nigel Farage, to launch a far right populist political party.

A political climate that rewards an ever-increasing hostility towards Muslim communities puts the legality of the Islamic faith in Britain under further, intense pressure, and it’s likely this pressure will produce ever more draconian “pre-crime” counterterrorism policy. In this sense, it’s not unthinkable to imagine a future Britain that prosecutes the practice of Islam as a thought crime.

Of course British Muslims are being held back. This is an Islamophobic country

With Muslims constantly spoken of or portrayed in a negative way, it’s no wonder we struggle to get jobs and be socially mobile

The government’s study into the social mobility challenges faced by young British Muslims once again shines a troubling spotlight on how race, class, Islamophobia and patriarchy within Muslim communities – and wider British society – is impacting the life chances and quality of life for a significant section of the British population.

It also further highlights the deepening fractures in our society. It is not inconsequential that the report from the government’s social mobility commission has been published days before the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the subsequent normalisation of anti-Muslim rhetoric in so much of our political, social and media discourse.

It is important for this connection to be made if we want to understand the wider context behind why British Muslims are lagging so behind with social mobility. The impact of 9/11 and the so-called “war on terror” on the lives of young British Muslims cannot be separated from the avalanche of racism and Islamophobia, micro-aggressions and hate crimes many young people face and the impact this is having on all aspects of their lives, from mental and physical wellbeing to career prospects.

For millennial Muslims, often the only references they have to their Muslim identity – and to wider society’s understanding of it – is terrorism, continuous war in Muslim countries, the savagery of the Taliban, al-Qaida and Isis, “home-grown” jihadists, desperate refugees fleeing, images of sex grooming gangs, and oppressed and victimised women splashed across the newspapers and internet. When this is the only dominant image you see of yourself, there is a problem. When you as a young person are being told over and over that this is your identity unless you prove otherwise, this does not bode well for you as an individual or a constructive member of society.

An 18-year-old man from Burnley explained to me the impact of all of this on his identity: “It makes me feel uncomfortable because they [the public] don’t know me as a person, but they judge me based on the media coverage and what they see on the TV. And then, yeah, of course, it makes it much harder for me to be British, doesn’t it? Because even though I am British and I feel British, I’m not allowed to be British. I’m only allowed to feel like I’m nothing, like a criminal. I’m only allowed to feel like I don’t belong and I will never belong.”

According to the report, British Muslims are now more highly educated than at any other time, yet this is still not translating into jobs.British Muslims are missing in action from the job market. The study found that 20% of Muslims aged 16 to 74 were in full-time employment, compared with 35% of the overall population. When they are in work, just 6% of Muslims hold down professional jobs, compared with 10% of the overall population in England and Wales. And when it comes to Muslim women, these figures make for even more grim reading. British Muslim women are the least economically active group of women in the UK. Overall, 18% of Muslim women aged 16 to 74 were recorded as “looking after home and family”, compared with 6% of the overall female population.

Without doubt, patriarchy and cultural practices inside their homes and communities are holding back many Muslim women. Families and communities often encourage young women to prioritise marriage and motherhood over developing their careers – but this does not explain the full picture. Society’s expectations of Muslim women continue to be low.

When I was 16 and at school in Oxford, a teacher who had never once taught me decided he already knew what my life plans were. He told me there was no point in me thinking about going on to study for my A-levels “because you are no doubt going to Pakistan in the summer to have an arranged marriage”. I remember feeling baffled that he could say this to me, given he had never spoken to me during all the time I was in the school.

From my conversations with young people, these assumptions and stereotypes are still prevalent, especially of Muslim women who are assumed to be subservient and lacking agency.

Sobia Afridi is a manager at Oxford Brookes University who works in the same department as Farhana Ghaffar, one of the authors of the social mobility report. Afridi manages a mentoring project run by the university and Oxford Central Mosque to improve the social mobility of young Muslims in the city. The project has been running since 2010 and connects students from the city’s two universities to working-class youngsters who they tutor in English and maths, boosting the students’ confidence, and helping to lift their academic aspirations.

It is in schemes such as this that we can find the solution to this problem. As Afridi says: “It is through a community-based approach that we can really make a difference to social mobility and raise the aspirations of Muslim youngsters.” If only more British Muslims were given such a chance to be accepted and build a life.

When you say, “Islam is dangerous,” what you’re saying is Muslims are an object to be securitized. You’re saying Muslims are a threat to national security, and, in turn, policing and counterterrorism policies must be mitigate against this threat by deploying tactics and measures that monitor and suppress Muslims.

This, more or less, is the logic that underpins much of the West’s hyper-legislative response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. More worryingly, recent public surveys show a hardening of attitudes towards Muslims in Western countries, and this all but promises the continuation and expansion of draconian counterterrorism policies that not only unfairly discriminate against Muslim communities, but also, ultimately, are self-defeating in the effort to both defeat “Islamic” terrorism and defend democratic values.

Billed as “one of the most comprehensive studies of English attitudes towards contemporary issues,” a report, conducted by Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation, found that 52% of Brits believe Islam “poses a threat to the West,” alongside another 25% who believe Islam is a “dangerous religion that incites violence.”

Hardening attitudes towards Islam, no doubt a reflection of both negative portrayals of Muslims in the media, and the fear in which “Islamic” terrorism invokes, create the political space for anti-Muslim opportunists to mobilize a political base.

A space that was made even wider the very day after the Bertelsmann Foundation report was published when the European Union’s counterterrorism coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove, announced without evidence that Britain was home to up to 35,000 “fanatical Islamists,” and also warned of more terrorist attacks if “greater measures” weren’t put in place to prevent them.

When you combine the public’s growing anti-Muslim hysteria with unsubstantiated, off-the-cuff claims disseminated into the media by political elites, you create the conditions in which the Islamic faith becomes all but illegal in the eyes of the police and counterterrorism agencies, which is pretty much where we are today.

Muslims living in the West are already living in the dystopian future portrayed in Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 film The Minority Report, which foretells of a future world in which law enforcement can prosecute and incapacitate future killers before they actually commit a crime. In other words, future criminals are apprehended based on their thoughts, rather than their behavior. It is from this film and the novel that inspired it that the word “pre-crime” is borrowed to describe the interdiction of threats before they materialize into actual criminal acts.

Since 9/11, Western governments have chosen to ignore the actual root causes of violent “Islamic” extremism — such as blowback from Western foreign policy, structural inequalities, and socioeconomic marginalization — and instead fixate on ambiguous notions such as “radicalization,” which not only inculcate Western governments from criticism, but shift the blame to Islam and Muslim communities.

In actual counterterrorism policy, it looks like this: pre-crime measures are put in place to apprehend Muslims before they commit an actual crime by criminalizing non-criminal actions and thoughts that the government imagines are stepping stones on the way to an act of political violence.

This is the logic that underpins both Prevent in the United Kingdom, and Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) programs in the United States. This pre-crime logic effectively deems all Muslims as potential terrorists in waiting, and worse, it essentially determines pious practice of the Islamic faith to be a stepping-stone to violent extremism, despite the fact Britain’s top spy agency, Mi5, says the evidence suggests “a well-established religious identity actually protects against radicalization,” and despite the fact more than 140 of the world’s leading academics determined Prevent to be based on junk science.

“Criminalization, like counterterrorism, is essentially a political process that happens outside the courts,” observes Jude McCulloch, a professor in criminology at Australia’s Monash University. “Counterterrorism and the pre-crime framework it animates formalizes the self-fulfilling prophesy of selective law enforcement by embedding preemption into formal law, increasing police powers and increasing the intensity and duration of coercion linked to police discretion and action.”

McCulloch also notes that where only the courts have the legal capacity to determine who is a criminal, it is politics and politicians who determine who is and who isn’t a terrorist. “The label ‘terrorism’ precedes, extends beyond and exists independently of reasonable suspicion and evidence-based criminal justice processes,” notes McCulloch.

It’s in this light that counter-terrorism policies underpinned by a “pre-crime” logic, such as Prevent, have produced interventions that make a mockery of the absurd. British Asian kids have been referred for displaying the Palestinian flag on their schoolbags; Muslim university professors who are studying terrorism have been detained for purchasing a book on, well, terrorism. As have young Muslim adults who attend their local mosque more often than usual.

In fact, only around 20% of those referred to the authorities under the Prevent program were assessed at risk of being vulnerable to violent extremist groups.

A Justice Initiative report, entitled “Eroding Trust,” concluded, “Being wrongly targeted under Prevent has led some Muslims to question their place in British society.”

Cerie Bullivant, a human rights activist with CAGE UK, told me that these “pre-crime” counterterrorism laws are so draconian and repressive against Muslim communities that we may very well see instances of terrorists not only citing British foreign policy as their primary grievance, but also domestic policies like Prevent.

Against this backdrop one can see how increasingly dangerous the current political climate is becoming for British Muslims. Hope Not Hate, an advocacy group that counters racism, argues that hardening British attitudes towards Muslims and Islam has created the space for extreme anti-Muslim political opportunists, like Nigel Farage, to launch a far right populist political party.

A political climate that rewards an ever-increasing hostility towards Muslim communities puts the legality of the Islamic faith in Britain under further, intense pressure, and it’s likely this pressure will produce ever more draconian “pre-crime” counterterrorism policy. In this sense, it’s not unthinkable to imagine a future Britain that prosecutes the practice of Islam as a thought crime.

A HEREFORD man who told police officers he wanted to ‘cut Muslims’ heads off’ has been given a fine by magistrates.

Paul Christopher Jones, 53, of Monnow Crescent, Redhill, claimed he was not racist and his words and actions on July 16 were down to drink.

Jones pleaded guilty to two counts of causing racially aggravated alarm or distress by words when he appeared before Hereford Magistrates.

Owen Beal, prosecuting, said that police were first called to Monnow Crescent at 2.10am on July 16, to reports of a man waving a stick around and hitting a bush.

“They found the defendant in his living room and he appeared to be very drunk,” said Mr Beal.

Once police had checked on his welfare they were about to leave and Jones followed them into the public hallway of the property.
“He started shouting that he hated black people and Muslims,” added Mr Beal.

“Jones said that he wanted to kill black people and wanted to cut Muslims’ heads off.”

But, in interview, Jones said that he wasn’t racist although he did hate Muslims. [That what they all say afterwards]

The court heard that Jones had appeared in court last June for another racially aggravated offence.

Philip Cornell, mitigating, said that Jones was out of control.

“Opinions are opinions but when expressed in a drunken state in public they can cause trouble,” he added.

“When he says he is not racist that is probably true as he was totally out of this world on home made wine.”

Britons who voted Leave in the EU referendum are more likely to describe themselves as ‘racially prejudiced’ than those who voted Remain, according to new research.

A survey of 2,220 people found that 34 per cent of Leave voters admitted holding racist attitudes compared to 18 per cent of Remain voters.

The study, conducted by the National Centre for Social Research, found 26 per cent of Britons still described themselves as ‘very’ or ‘a little’ prejudiced towards people of other races.

The study has been conducted annually since 1983 and the number of people saying they are racially prejudiced has never fallen below a quarter.

The figure peaked at 39 per cent in 1987 and hit a second peak of 37 per cent in 2011, the report Racial Prejudice In Britain Today said.

Also published in the report was new data from the European Social Survey conducted in 2014 revealing that 18 per cent of Britons agreed that ‘some races or ethnic groups are born less intelligent’.

A total of 44 per cent of the 3,000 Britons involved in the European Social Survey said that some ethnic groups were naturally harder working.

Men were more likely than women to say they were racially prejudiced, at 29 per cent compared to 23 per cent.

The population was also divided along party lines, with 33 per cent of Conservative party supporters admitting racial prejudice compared to 18 per cent of Labour supporters.

Nancy Kelley, deputy chief executive at the National Centre for Social Research, said: ‘These numbers provide clear evidence that a significant minority of people in Britain feel prejudiced towards people of other races.

‘The findings seem to buck the trend of growing tolerance we have seen in the British Social Attitudes survey.

‘Prejudice on this scale is something we as a society should be concerned about, not least as there is a significant body of evidence that even subtle racial prejudices contribute to racial inequality in areas such as education, employment and in the criminal justice system.’

Dr Omar Khan, director of racial equality think tank Runnymede, said: ‘We have been far too complacent about a rising wave of tolerance leading to a less prejudiced society.

‘We need new ways of talking about race to tackle the stereotypes and fears of difference that give rise to unfairness.

‘But even more importantly, we need policies that tackle racial inequality and enable greater social interaction between people from different backgrounds.’

The man - named locally as Dr Nasser Kurdy - was approached from behind and stabbed in the neck at the Altrincham Islamic Centre on Grove Lane.

Two men, aged 32 and 54, have been arrested in connection with the incident.

Some worshippers were already inside the mosque when the attack happened just before 6pm on Sunday evening.

Police are treating the incident as a hate crime, reports the Manchester Evening News .

It is understood the man, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in his 50s, who lives nearby, was treated in hospital and is expected to be kept in overnight.

His injuries are not thought to be critical.

Members of the congregation spoke of their shock following the attack which they say is out of character for the area.

Labour Councillor Andrew H Western for Priory Ward, Sale, said: "Shocked and saddened to hear of stabbing of Dr Nasser Kurdy outside Altrincham mosque. Thoughts with him and his family."

Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), tweeted: "Thank you @gmpolice for your swift action (2 people in custody) following a Muslim being stabbed outside Altrincham Mosque in a hate crime.

"The victim is apparently in good spirits. It could have been a lot worse."

A spokesperson from the Altrincham Islamic Centre said: “Nothing like this has ever happened before and it does not reflect the community. In my experience community relations are very good and it is a very safe area; it is shocking for all of us. I would like to invite anybody to come to talk to us and if they harbour any ill will then to come and find out more about us. My message to the congregation is to not be deterred from coming here. One thing that our scripture tells us is to repel evil with kindness.”

Harun Khan, secretary general of the MCB, said: "We are shocked to hear of the stabbing of a prominent Muslim surgeon outside Altrincham Mosque today in what the Greater Manchester Police have described as a hate crime.

"We are relieved to hear that the victim's injuries are not currently critical. Our prayers are with the victim, his family and the local community."

A friend of the victim told the M.E.N. he had suffered a 3cm stab wound and needed stitches.

He said: “He is a lovely guy, very gentle, loved by the community Muslim and non-Muslim alike. He needs stitches and will be kept in hospital overnight, he is incredibly lucky. This incident has really shaken us.”

Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said: "I strongly condemn the stabbing of the Imam of the Altrincham mosque earlier today. The Imam is recovering and an arrest has been made."

A video posted on Facebook following reports of the stabbing purportedly shows the victim immediately after the attack.

Greater Manchester Police said in a statement: "This evening Sunday 24th September at 5.50pm police were called to reports that a man had been stabbed outside the Altrincham and Hale Muslim Association, Grove Lane.

"It is early in the investigation but what we know so far is that a 58-year-old man was on his way to the Altrincham and Hale Muslim Association when he saw another man across the road. A short time later he felt an injury to the back of his neck. He ran into the Centre and then called emergency services.

"Police and ambulance attended and the man was taken to hospital. Clearly he is shook up by the incident but thankfully his injuries are not life threatening and he has now been discharged from hospital.

"An investigation was commenced by police immediately and two men aged 54 and 32 were arrested within an hour of the attack.

"Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, said: “'This is a very nasty and unprovoked attack against a much loved local man. We have made significant progress with the investigation and have arrested two people. We consider that these arrests are significant and with the information that we have at this stage, we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this attack. People will want to know why the attacker did this and we are treating this as a crime motivated by hate. It is difficult to say more than this at this time but there is nothing to suggest that this is terrorist related. There will be increased police presence in the area in the coming days to reassure local people.”

If anyone has witnessed this incident or saw anyone hanging around Grove Lane at this time, please contact Greater Manchester Police on 101 quoting reference number 1646 of 24/09/17 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

To report a hate crime, you can either call 101 or report it via the True Vision website at report-it.org.uk

A man has been charged with stabbing a Muslim surgeon outside his mosque in Cheshire.
Ian Anthony Rook, a 28-year-old homeless man, is accused of stabbing Mr Nasser Kurdy in the back of the neck as he went into the Altrincham Islamic Centre in Hale, Cheshire, on Sunday evening.

He has now been charged with assault and possession of a lethal weapon, Greater Manchester Police said. A second man who was also arrested has now been released without charge.

Rook is now due to appear at Manchester Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

The 58-year-old doctor suffered a three centimetre wound to the back of his neck, and was rushed to Wythenshawe Hospital - where he works - for treatment.

After the attack, it emerged that the Syrian-Jordanian father-of-three had worked tirelessly to save the lives of Manchester bombing victims in May.

Police confirmed that they had made two arrests in the wake of the incident, and that they were treating it as a hate crime.
Mr Kurdy said today that he forgave his attacker, and felt no anger towards him.

'He is not representative of what this country stands for,' Kurdy said. 'I have absolutely no anger or hate or anything negative towards him. I have declared it, I have totally forgiven him. He could be a marginalised person within his own community.'

The consultant orthopaedic surgeon added that he felt lucky to have survived.

'God was merciful to me yesterday,' he said. 'It could be a nerve, an artery, a vein, the gullet. The neck is the contact between the body and your head, but fortunately it was just the muscle.'

Landmark ruling finds separation causes detriment and less favourable treatment for all pupils

An Islamic faith school's policy of segregating boys from girls is unlawful sex discrimination, Court of Appeal judges have said in a landmark ruling.

Ofsted placed the mixed-sex Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham into special measures last June after it claimed dividing classes was discriminatory.

But a High Court ruling last year found inspectors were wrong to penalise on the basis of an "erroneous" view that segregation amounted to unlawful discrimination.

Three Court of Appeal judges have now unanimously overturned the previous ruling, finding the complete segregation of classes to be contrary to the 2010 Equality Act.

The judges ruled the segregation caused detriment and less favourable treatment for both male and female pupils by reason of their sex.

"It is common ground that the school is not the only Islamic school which operates such a policy and that a number of Jewish schools with a particular Orthodox ethos and some Christian faith schools have similar practices," they said.

For religious reasons, the voluntary-aided school, which has pupils aged between four and 16, believes that separation of the sexes from year five onwards is obligatory.

It has complete segregation of boys and girls from nine to 16 for all lessons, breaks, school clubs and trips.

Inspectors found the Birmingham school had left pupils "unprepared for life in modern Britain".

The decision is likely to have far-reaching consequences for any schools that have a segregation policy.

The judges said there was "a strong argument" for the Education Secretary and Ofsted "to recognise that, given the history of the matter, their failure (despite their expertise and responsibility for these matters) to identify the problem and the fact that they have de facto sanctioned and accepted a state of affairs which is unlawful, the schools affected should be given time to put their houses in order in the light of our conclusion that this is unlawful sex discrimination".

Speaking after the ruling, Ofsted's chief inspector Amanda Spielman said the ruling would set a precedent for future inspections.

"I am delighted that we have won this appeal," she said.

"Ofsted's job is to make sure that all schools properly prepare children for life in modern Britain. Educational institutions should never treat pupils less favourably because of their sex, or for any other reason.

"The school is teaching boys and girls entirely separately, making them walk down separate corridors, and keeping them apart at all times.

"This is discrimination and is wrong. It places these boys and girls at a disadvantage for life beyond the classroom and the workplace, and fails to prepare them for life in modern Britain"

She added: "This case involves issues of real public interest, and has significant implications for gender equality, Ofsted, government, and the wider education sector. We will be considering the ruling carefully to understand how this will affect future inspections."

Nations around the world live in an unsettling time of extremism making itself known in horrific acts of destruction that steals innocent lives, but groups like the EDL (English Defence League) and other far-right groups in Britain, my home country, continue to use these acts to engage in xenophobic, Islamophobic abuse. Anger is justified, but it cannot be taken out on the innocent, and we must protect our fellow Muslim communities from this.

While it does not detract from the monstrous events that have taken place in my nation, we must bear in mind that extremists are not just attacking Britain and its values: terrorism is an attempt to incite fear and create a divide in all places it touches. A car bomb in Kabul last month killed over 150 civilians as they observed Ramadan, a time of peace and prayer. A bombing in Manchester took 22 innocent lives away, many of which children, at a concert, meant for leisure and escapism. Extremists like Daesh know to target innocents because the overwhelming response of fear and anger drive people apart.

Dividing people works for organisations like Daesh: it knows that the resulting alienation of Muslims in Western countries can convince young people to join its cause, according to director of Giraffe Heroes International, John Graham, because it suggests a haven from the injustices inflicted upon them. This does not justify anyone’s attempt to commit violence against others, but extremist groups will use any form of manipulation to expand their cause.

But what this terrorism also does not justify is the continued abuse served to Muslim communities in the West, something I fear is growing in Britain. Far-right activists like Tommy Robinson manage to draw right-wing nationalist followers that claim Muslims are destroying Britain, and are growing in support on social media. We had a white terrorist succeed in murdering a group of Muslims leaving their prayer.

We do not resolve terrorism with more terrorism.

We should not equate the actions of extremists to our Muslim communities because we did not do the same for white people when British white supremacist, Thomas Mair, murdered Labour MP Jo Cox. It makes no sense to vilify the innocent for the acts of the guilty.

We have no basis for coalescing Islamist [Muslim] extremists with everyday Muslims either, especially when Daesh wishes to commit these injustices during Ramadan, a time of holiness for Muslims, and constantly inflict them with harm.

We must respond like Manchester did after its dreadful attack: reject the nationalists that aim to use extremist violence as a tool to motivate xenophobia through fear, and we must unite with our fellow Muslim Britons because they bear no responsibility for the act of terrorists.

It needs to be remembered that terrorism from organisations like Daesh is an attack on all of us as Britons, not just a select few of a certain faith, race and identity. America has long faced an increasing attack on Muslims, Human Rights Watch reported, and my country desperately needs to avoid this path.

We must not give into the desire of extremists like Daesh that want to dissolve our peace, but we cannot resort to the dividing tactics far-right groups are using that will further instigate this. The peace we desire and the nation we wish to be proud of will never arise from hatred.